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Summary: Don't even think of buying this product
Review: It simply doesn't work well and Siemens won't accept any responsbility. I bought the base and 4 extensions. None of them work well at all. When listening, the earpiece "warbles" so you can't carry on a conversation. This is near the base, far from the base, everywhere. It doesn't do it all the time, but is totally exasperating. Staples was nice enough to exchange some of the handsets, but nothing changes. Also, beware the microwave oven! Anytime you are near an operating microwave oven, you can't hear a thing over the interferance. I really liked the phone when I first got it, but within a week or two, it started developing problems. My sister in law got the same phone system and has the exact same problems. Don't ever buy Siemens products... customer no-service is awful!
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Summary: Great Big Disappointment
Review: I only gave it one star because there isn't a minus 10-star rating! Poor reception, voice quality is worse than an analog cell phone, range is limited (doesn't even work upstairs), and probably the worst customer service I have ever experienced from a company. Do I need say more? DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE (or any Siemans phone for that matter) unless you enjoy being slowly tortured!!!
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Summary: Do NOT waste your money. Do not buy Siemens!!!!
Review: The handsets fall apart with normal use... When the new one breaks -- and it will -- you are stuck throwing yet [more money]at this system. I wish Siemens built a reliable product because I love the features of this phone. ... the product is worse[awful]. Run Run RUN RUN RUN
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Summary: Looks good on paper....but no delivery!
Review: Great concept. Lousy delivery. Anytime I get anywhere near my wireless cable modem the cordless handsets snap, crackle & pop -- they are truly awful. It's in the design because these are the second set of handsets I've used. Siemens replaced the first ones but these still don't work well. Stay away if you've got any other wireless action going on at your house/office.
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Summary: Big Disappointment
Review: Great features, very poor performance. This would be everything you want in a phone system, if only it worked. Very short range, many dropped calls, and a weird "underwater" sound on many calls, even less than 50 feet from the base station. Siemens really should offer full-value refunds. I can't imagine ever buying another Siemens product.
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Summary: Phone working nicely
Review: We needed a phone system in our house that would allow us to also use it as a room-to-room pager and this system works very good for that. We purchased the base set plus two handsets. It also has very qood quality sound throughout our 2-story house. I really like the feature of being able to individually name each handset (i.e. kitchen or master bedroom). The setup is not too complicated, but requires a little more than plugging the phone in right out of the box. So far (after 2 weeks) have had no problems with battery life, often leaving phones off charger all day. The main reason I am giving a 4-stars instead of 5 is because it is one of the most expensive models of almost all comparable phones and for the slightly more complicated setup. Overall, we are very pleased with this phone and its companion handsets.
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Summary: Glad the others reviews agreed
Review: Siemens has a GREAT idea, BUT the implementation and their support is HORRIBLE. The range is terrible (not even 1/2 the house) and Siemens doesn't care if you call. A 900 mHz Sony does 20 times as far in the same house. In short if you buy this, prepare to be terribly disappointed.
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Summary: Do not buy this piece of [junk]
Review: If you buy this phone after reading all of these reviews you deserve what you get, and what you'll get is a very expensive piece of [junk]. The LCD displays are of poor quality and will probably break within the year warranty. My handset display and the base station display both had LCD segments that quit displaying. When talking on the handset you may experience "chopping" in transmission and reception. It seems like the handset can not lock on to the signal from the base station. If you experience this, you are out of luck because replacing the phones will not solve this problem (I've tried 4 handsets). It would appear that the phones are poorly shielded from interference. This is a fairly complicated phone to setup and use. You will have to read the manual to understand how to setup the phone and use the many features. This will be a sore spot if you have a spouse that does not like reading manuals. If you ignore all these poor reviews and buy the phone, good luck explaining to your spouse why you spent so much money on a complicated phone that works worse than the [less expensive] 900Mhz phone that you just replaced.
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Summary: Stay Clear
Review: Within two weeks the answering machine portion of this system broke. The technical support person and his supervisor told me the only way to get it fixed was for them to send me a box, have me send the phone in and then they would send me a new phone. They estimated the time I would be without a phone would be about 10 days. I don't know anyone who can go 10 days at home without a phone. For a firm that has 85,000 employees and billions in revenue I can't believe they could have come up with a more insane return policy. Also the reception isn't nearly what they said. In my house I am 20 yards from the base station and the phone will not work in my office. They informed me that there wasn't anything I could do, no additional antennae's or anything to resolve the problem.
Poor Management and Poor Product!!
Buy the Panasonic!!!!!!
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Summary: Siemens will not support you
Review: I own the previous model system with four handsets. The base station display failed after the one year warranty period. To my utter suprize, Siemens will not service or support you in any way. For the first year they will send you a refurbished phone as a replacement but after that do not have a problem because there is no repair service, parts, or anything other than a service rep on the phone telling you, "I know it is lousy but I can not help." They told me to buy a reburbished phone off of ebay. That was the total service advice of Siemens. I will not be replacing my 2420 with this new model nor will I waste my money on another non-supported Siemens product.
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